Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virginia Martinez (Louisiana politician)


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The result was   keep. Courcelles 22:27, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Virginia Martinez (Louisiana politician)

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This article does not meet the inclusion criteria. The subject is a former official in the LA Republican Party, but she seems to have had little actual influence. The article is full of WP:OR (sources include genealogy sites). None of the sources listed meet WP:RS - they are either unreliable (rootsweb), primary sources (SSDI), not independent (NFRW), and none of them provide significant coverage of the subject. Karanacs (talk) 15:39, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 15:44, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 15:45, 27 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment-the subject was politically active from 1977 to 1992 (she's so old, the article doesn't know her exact birthdate). Hence internet sources are highly unlikely to exist, but it's quite possible she was covered by print media at the time. G News shows up many paid articles (I searched for "Virginia Martinez" republican, standard elimination of non-reliable sources, and pigeonholed between 1975 and 1992), though it's difficult to establish whether they really mention her (Martinez is a very common name, I've found articles about a different Virginia Martinez a few years after the death of the one in the article). If she's the one mentioned in all those articles, she's probably notable. But is she? Puchiko (Talk-email) 17:03, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * There's another Virginia Martinez who was active in politics in Chicago; most of these articles are discussing that one. Karanacs (talk) 18:22, 27 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Here's the secret - you have to search under Ginny Martinez. Under that name she got a lot of coverage and did seem to be at least somewhat influential. Most of the coverage is local, from The Advocate, but she also rated an item in the Washington Post. --MelanieN (talk) 01:13, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep- Treasurer of two Republican National Conventions (believed to be !1984 and ?1988) referred to in this namesake [scholarship] of the Louisiana Federation of Republican Women. Dru of Id (talk) 19:28, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep- Her death was reported in at least the Washington Post, the San Jose Mercury News and the St Petersburg Times, confirming that she was treasurer for the Republican National Conventions in '80 and '84. They also report her age at death as 69. Mhjohns (talk) 02:52, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep: clearly meets the notability threshold. –CWenger ( ^ •  @ ) 04:03, 29 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep by author's request. I was told that the cemetery records were destroyed by Katrina, and the funeral home said the only way to find the exact date of birth was to come to the cemetery and check the gravestone unless I could contact a family member. Billy Hathorn (talk) 06:33, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
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